Submit your fiction and poetry

If you’re in a more writerly mood, submit a story for Ben Walter’s upcoming fiction issue of anti-/dis-/un-Australian stories. Challenge the form, challenge the content, or submit those stories you previously thought too experimental for standard print fiction.

You can also enter the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. This year, the prize, which consists of $5000 and a three-month writing residency at the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College, is looking for the best poem (of up to 88 lines). If you’re not eligible for the prize, send the details onto someone who is.

Heatwave preparation

Finally, in preparation for future heatwaves anywhere in the southern hemisphere, here are the top four films to watch, as voted by an internal Overland straw poll:

Chinatown

Do the Right Thing

Barton Fink

Stray Dog / Wake in Fright

Adieu!

We’ll see you in 2016 for more provocation, more print issues, more daily online magazine, more special fiction and poetry issues experimenting with form and style, more prizes and the inaugural Overland writing residency.

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